An Introduction

We're often asked the question, "What are Cinderellas?" You may
remember the fairy tale about Cinderella, the stepchild that everyone pushed aside.
"Cinderellas" is the nickname given to the stepchildren of stamp collecting, all
those stamps and things that no one can find in Scott's catalog, and that no one knows
what to do with. We've spent quite a few years bringing Cinderellas to philately's
ball and guess what some folks are discovering ? What one collector thought was junk is
just the specialty item that another collector has been hunting for years. Does all this
sound familiar ? Simply put, if it looks like a stamp, or feels like a stamp and it's not
listed in Scott's catalog then it's probably a Cinderella.

While that's a starting point, there's certainly a lot more to be said. A few years
back we began to document what we could through a series of monthly columns. These are now
being republished here. Some of the material discussed includes:

REVENUE STAMPS - Foreign tax stamps of every description and purpose, off and on
document; (and returning soon) U.S. taxpaids and state revenues.

POSTER STAMPS - Classic antique advertising, expositions and fairs, philatelic
souvenirs and many thematic areas such as Olympics, political campaigns, and World Wars I
& II.